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John Singer Sargent

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I Am Not a “Gypsy”

Avatar photo by Cristiana Grigore October 31, 2022October 31, 2022

Often, there is a disconnect between the museum world and Roma representation. One exhibition at the National Gallery of Art proves that it doesn’t have to be this way.

Posted inBooks

How Venetian Glass Seduced American Artists a Century Ago

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford January 6, 2022January 5, 2022

A lavishly illustrated, fascinating book explores the resurgence of Venetian glass and the ways it influenced American ideas about taste and beauty.

Posted inArt

Notes on Living a Translated Life

Avatar photo by Lorraine O'Grady October 11, 2020November 5, 2020

From the John Singer Sargent frontal nude painting of McKeller in Boston’s MFA, I’d imagined Thomas as tall and slender. Looking more closely, I can see that even 100 years ago a body like Thomas’s was not accidental.

Posted inArt

American Artists’ Fraught Responses to the First World War

by Anne Blood January 12, 2017January 17, 2017

From critical to patriotic and everything in between, a vast exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts displays the full range of US artists’ reactions to World War I.

Posted inArt

Stroll Through the Color and Light of an American Impressionist’s Garden

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 8, 2016August 8, 2016

As artists like Georges Seurat and Claude Monet were capturing the refinement of European gardens in quick brushstrokes, so did American Impressionists like Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase turn to the cultivated landscapes around them for inspiration.

Posted inArt

How Artists Interpreted the Transformation of Paris into a City of Light

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 11, 2016August 29, 2016

GREENWICH, Conn. — Everything was illuminated at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, from 5,000 electric lamps igniting the Eiffel Tower to the Grand Waterfall, a cascading fountain animated by colored lights.

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The Lights of Paris, Seen Through the Eyes of the Impressionists and Their Contemporaries

by Sponsor May 23, 2016July 5, 2018

Bruce Museum’s ‘Electric Paris’ features approximately fifty paintings, photographs, and drawings that explore the influence of artificial lighting on the Impressionists and their contemporaries. Expect a mix of European and American masters: Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, among many more.

Posted inArt

The Enveloping Darkness of John Singer Sargent’s Prints and Drawings

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 16, 2015December 15, 2015

Rare examples of John Singer Sargent’s printmaking are on temporary view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, demonstrating his interest in the expressive shapes of the human body and lithography’s potential to show these figures in darkness and light.

Posted inArt

The Unsettled Legacy of John Singer Sargent

by Peter Malone September 25, 2015October 2, 2015

John Singer Sargent’s brilliance as a painter should be obvious to anyone with eyes. And yet a perennial caveat inevitably surfaces in much of the discussion that accompanies exhibitions of his work.

Posted inArt

Staring Back: 400 Years of Portraits at the Morgan

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli July 4, 2015July 9, 2015

Life Lines: Portrait Drawings from Dürer to Picasso at the Morgan Library & Museum may not venture very far beyond canonical European artists, but it uncovers richness and diversity within a circumscribed field, especially in the work of its two anchors, Albrecht Dürer and Pablo Picasso.

Posted inNews

MFA Boston Establishes John Singer Sargent Archive with Trove of Letters and Sketches

by Laura C. Mallonee June 9, 2015July 24, 2015

You might say that Boston was to John Singer Sargent what Florence was to Michelangelo.

Posted inArt

The Merits of Old Masters’ B-Sides, at the Frick

by Peter Malone January 12, 2015April 15, 2016

Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery, on view in the East Gallery of the Frick Collection, is a gathering of ten paintings analogous to the cohort of masterpieces in the Frick’s adjacent West Gallery. Visitors are left free to consider each as representing a unique, if not significant moment in each artist’s career.

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